Peril vs. Hazard — What's the Difference?

Imminent danger

A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would allow them, even just theoretically, to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value.

Exposure to the risk of harm or loss

A chance of being injured or harmed

Something that endangers or involves risk

Risk or danger

To expose to danger or the chance of injury; imperil.

A possible source of danger

A situation of serious and immediate danger.

(Games) A game played with dice that is a forerunner of craps and was especially popular in England in the 1600s and 1700s.

Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

(Sports) An obstacle, such as a sand trap, found on a golf course.

(insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

(Archaic) Chance or an accident.

(transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

To expose to danger or risk.

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

To venture (something)

To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.

To express at the risk of denial, criticism, or censure

To be in danger.

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;

An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

A state of danger involving risk

(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;

(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

Pose a threat to; present a danger to;

(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

Chance.

(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.

(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

To expose to chance; to take a risk.

To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

A game of chance played with dice.

The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty.

Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.

Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).

Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.

Any place into which the ball may not be safely played, such as bunkers, furze, water, sand, or other kind of bad ground.

To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk.

To venture to incur, or bring on.

To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune;

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

An obstacle on a golf course

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;

Put at risk;

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;